Changing Facebook DP Into Digital India Tricolour has nothing to do with Internet.org: Facebook

Deepanker Verma

11 years ago

Today, I wrote a post to address Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that Indian people changed their profile pictures to show support to ‘Digital India’ and not to support Facebook’s Internet.org initiative. This discussion came because someone found a CSS class with word ‘internetOrgProfilePicture’. People assumed that Facebook is actually using this picture as a vote to its Internet.org. I clearly mentioned that Facebook can use but it is just based on assumptions. But Indian media persons came on conclusion that Facebook is using this as a vote without any proof. This resulted in a big protest against this tri-color profile picture concept.

Now, Facebook has finally gave the official statement to Huffingtonpost India. Spokesperson said, “There is absolutely no connection between updating your profile picture for digital India and Internet.org. An engineer mistakenly used the words “Internet.org profile picture” as a shorthand name he chose for part of the code. But this product in no way connects to or registers support for Internet.org. We are changing the code today to eliminate any confusion.”

Here, I do not want to again confirm that Facebook didn’t have intention to use our affirmation to change pics as vote. There could be a possibility that this long protest forced Facebook to change their decision. But we can only assume.

I want to advice all people in the country to suspect but do not be judge in any matter. Facebook may use of may not use. But there was no JS code which was actually saving code. Facebook badly wants to dominate the Internet but we should not decide things and be judge just on assumption.

I hope Facebook now knows the stand of Indian people on net neutrality.

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